Efficiency and educational chart



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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH L. BowLns', 51:, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inEfficiency and Educational Charts; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

This invention relates to a system of and means for keeping tab on onesown personal, social or business conduct, and particularly to chart usedfor self-analysis, or to enablea person to keep a daily record oraccount of his own conduct and dealings with his fellowmen, thusrevealing his strong and his weak points and enabling him to tell justwhere he stands with himself at the end of theday.

The invention consistsof a chart specially designed and adapted toenable the user to keep an accurate account of his or her personal,social or business conduct, or in other words, to take a daily inventoryof himself that will'bring' to mindat the close of the day the factwhether the trend of his life is toward success or failure, with theultimate object of bettering his condition, not only morally,spiritually or physically, but along commercial lines.

All individuals are being constantly swayed by human emotions-at onetime a positive thought will influence; at'another a negative thoughtwill dominate ones actions. The degree to which one is able to controlthe characterof his thoughts and act's determines both the quality andquanstructive) thoughts dominate ones life, he is traveling the road tosuccess. The reverse is true if he permits the negative (or destructive) side of his nature to dictate his course. As men and women areable to control their thoughts and acts, they may live successful,well-rounded lives, or the reverse.

The reading of goodliterature is inspiring.

To read the histories of great andsuccessful men is an inspiration, forsuch works or biographies are replete with thoughts and acts that spurone onward and upward. The

shortcoming of the individually usually is that he does not capitalizethe inspirational value of what he reads. Being human, he isSpecification of Letters Patent. 7 Pafe ted y 13 2 v 9 V I Applicationfiled July 11,

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prone to forget,.an'd when in need ofthe helptu-l suggestions found inbooks orother literature, he does not know just whereito findthem. Whilein no sense a substitute for good reading my improved charts,nevertheless contain the sum total ofthe inspirin thoughts which goodreading and experienc zi create. They are quite simplein form, and atthe end of the work day or just before retiring, one may in the space ofonly a few minutes check up with himself an'd tell ustwhere he stands,and whether he has been:.a failure or a success that day, and why.

Many men are not successful in business because they do not accuratelyanalyze themselves. All know and admit that there is a cause for everyeffect. The difficulty lies in the fact-that there are so many who rushthrough life without introspection or selfanalysis. They cannot see thatthey are failures-orare headed in that direction until perhaps it is toolate to turn back. They so absorbed in their business-so close to theirjobs and in such a hurry at all times that they do not see things inperspective as all must if they are to rise above the multitude. They donot evaluate accurately.

Howmany men stop long enough to analyze themselves, in order todetermine why they are neither failures nor successes? How many 'menreally think? The answer is to be found in the comparatively smallnumber of men who, gauged by the worlds measure, are looked upon assuccessful business men. My. improved charts compel one to think. Then,if there be innate-ambition, impel one to go forward.

These charts are reminders of what one must do to succeed. They operateupon the theory that the doors to success are opened with two keys; oneto open the door to de sire; the other the door to truth. These chartswill point the way. It is for the user to enter. To one who has nodesire to succeed, the chart will be of little value. On the other hand,if one is not going to be frank with himself in telling the truth abouthimself, his ambition may be guided er roneously, for the charts whentruthfully kept will reveal both his weak points-and his strong points.If he is not frank in checking upwith himself, he will be fooling no onebut himself, for these charts are his own private property and the eyesof no other person 'may see them unless he shall so I as the form shown.

choose. The user should therefore not be hypercritical or hypocritical.Simply be frankand then face the facts.

The accompanying drawing represents a plan view of a chart embodying myinvention in the form used for keeping tab on ones business conduct.Similar charts with different words or phrases depicting various shadesof character and temperament, or indicative of thought or action alongthe lines of ones personal and social conduct, may beused, embodying thesame principle As shown, the chart comprises a sheet A of paper or thelike, similar to the leaves of a book, or a folder, any desired numberof which'may be bound or fastened together in pamphlet form.

On the left-hand side or margin of each leafor page there is a verticalcolumn,

which is preferably divided into several panels 03, c and a and haswr1tten or printed thereon a series of words or phrases selected for aself-analysis of ones business conduct, each leaf being ruled withvertical, and transverse lines which extend nearly the full length andwidth thereof, so as to provide a vertical series of spaces equal tothenumber of days in a month and a horizontal series of spaces equal tothe number of words or phrases used to depict the various shades ofcharacter, etc., or to indicate thought or action along various lines,

I each word or phrase being arranged directly opposite one of the seriesof horizontal spaces and the vertical series of spaces being numberedconsecutively from 1. to 31 to indicate the days of the month. At thetop of the column on the left hand page or leaf is placed the wordPositive, and the top of the column on the right-hand page or leaf theword Negative, the positive side'being designed to quiz ones self as tomatters, acts or deeds of a desirable character, and the negative sideto quiz ones self as to matters, acts. or deeds of-an undesirablecharacter. Below each column, directly opposite or in alinementwith ahorizontal series of spaces a corresponding with the superposed spacesnumbered to denote the days of the month, are the words Per; centperfecteach day and below the latter the words Average for month, opposite aspace at the foot of the column, and in the upper right hand corner isWritten Perfect over a vertical series of spaces of alined with thehorizontal series, so that in checking up dayby day ones businessconduct a space is provided for each item for each day in the month andalso a space for I summarizing the percent perfect for each day of themonth, and the average per cent for the entire month, also the averagefor each item each day in the month. As stated,

the charts for recording matters, acts and deeds relating to personal orsocial conduct the 1 day. F or instance, assuming that the positive sideof the chart contains 55 items, and that one has graded himself100% on 5of the items, 75% on 15 items, 50% on 20 items, 25% on 10 items and zeroon the remaining 5. This gives a total of 2.975%, which, divided by 55gives an average for the day of 52%. In other. words, for that day theperson would be only 52% perfect, which is very low. Perfect would be5500% and, divided by'the number of items, (55) would give 100%, whichis. the desired goal. The negative side of the chart: is graded in thesame manner. Assumingthat there are 26 items on the negative side, andthat ones grading on the negative side averages 60%, then the jointaverage may be ascertained by adding the positive average of 52% and thenegative average of 60% and dividing by 2, or 56% perfect for the day.At the end ofthe montlucompute the percentages on each item, separatelyon the positive and negative sides, for each day andv divide by'thenumber of days in that month placing the result in the Perfect column ofspaces a on the extreme right. Then total the percentages in thiscolumn,- dividing the result by the number of items,

and that will give the average for the month. Both positive and negativesides of the chart are to he -figured up in this manner, the two resultsadded, and thendivid'ed by 2 to get the joint averagefor the month.

If the result shows an upward tendency 'ity will indicate that the userisprogressing, whereas if it shows a downwardv tendency it will indicatethat the user is going back ward. I

The average is arrived at by dividing the total joint averages'for themonth by the number of days in that month. For instance, assuming thatfor 10 days in the month the user had a joint average of 70%, 5 days75%, 10 days 80% and 5 days 90%. This would give atotal of 2325%, which,

divided by a 30 day month, would make of affairs generally, my inventionis not limited in its application to such uses, but

by a mere change of words and phrases to what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A chart of the character described, comprising a sheet of suitablematerial having the surface thereof ruled with vertical and horizontallines so as to form a series of spaces at one side of the sheet in bothvertical and horizontal alinement, and a vertical column at the otherside of the sheet having written or printed therein a series of wordsand phrases depicting various shades of character and temperament, orindicative of thought or action along the lines of business, personal orsocial conduct, and in alinement successively with said horizontallyalined spaces; said vertical series of spaces being numberedconsecutively to correspond with the number of days 111 a given periodof time, delineated spaces below and in alinement with said verticalseries of spaces, and words or phrases in alinement with said delineatedspaces indicating percentages and the average for the number of dayscovered by said period of time.

2. A chart of the character described, comprising two sheets of suitablematerial having the surface of each sheet ruled with vertical andhorizontal lines so as to form a series of spaces at one side of thesheet in alinement both vertically and horizontally, and a verticalcolumn at the other side of the sheet having written or printed thereina series of. words and phrases depicting various shades of character andtemperament, or indicative of thought or action along the lines ofbusiness, personal or social conduct, said words and phrases being inalinement successively with said horizontal series of spaces, those onone sheet being of a posi tive and those on the other sheet of anegative character; said vertical series of spaces on each sheet beingnumbered consecutively to correspond with the number of days in a givenperiod of time, delineated spaces below and in alinement with saidvertical series of spaces, and words or phrases in alinement with saiddelineated spaces indicating percentages and the average for the numberof days covered by said period of time.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOSEPH LUCVETT BOWLES, JR.

Witnesses:

PAUL WILLIS, MARGARET METZ.

